Women's Hormone Health: A  Lifecourse  Approach

Adam Balen is Professor of Reproductive Medicine at Leeds Teaching Hospitals and Lead Clinician at Leeds Fertility, one of the UK’s largest assisted conception units.

Adam is past Chair of the British Fertility Society, sits on Council of the RCOG, is a member of the World Health Organization Infertility Guidelines Development Group, the PCOS Global Alliance and past Chair of ESHRE’s Reproductive Endocrinology Special Interest Group.

Adam has written 14 books and more than 260 peer-reviewed papers. He has a long-standing interest in all aspects of PCOS and has been on all the key consensus groups since Rotterdam in 2003. 

Mr Michael Savvas, Consultant Gynaecologist has had an interest in infertility for many years and is the clinical lead for the Assisted conception unit at King’s College Hospital, which specialise in the investigation of infertility, including Intrauterine insemination IVF and ICSI.

Mr Savvas has special interests in a number of areas including the management of women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, menopause and HRT, which he has undertaken many research projects in the field of Menopause and HRT is a field including the use of different forms of HRT in the prevention of postmenopausal osteoporosis and the effects of HRT on skin thickness and collagen content. 

Mr Savvas also has many years of experience in colposcopy and is a  BSCCP accredited colposcopist.

Professor Brincat served as Chairman and Director of Obstetrics and Gynaecology with the Department of Health on the Maltese Islands from 1991-2018. He is currently a Professor at the University of Malta Medical School (O&G) and Hon. Clinical Professor at Queen Mary University London (QMUL), from Nov 2017 to present (Medical Education). He is also an Associate Dean at QMUL, Bart’s Medical School (Malta).

Professor Brincat has held several posts and has served on several committees including ISGE, EMAS, IMS and ESHRE. His academic work was mostly in Gynaecological Endocrinology. He has had a special interest in Menopause and his PhD (King’s College, University of London) concerning work on the relationship of Menopause and HRT on connective tissue, particularly on the skin and bone.

He has presented keynote lectures and published extensively on the subject of menopause in a broad range of subjects. He also founded the first Maltese ART (IVF) Unit and has also had a long-standing interest in reproductive endocrinology and infertility.

Professor Brincat continues to lecture both undergraduates and postgraduates and is still actively involved in Menopause and Infertility, recently also picking up an interest in the application of gynaecological laser techniques.

Miss Robinson qualified from Cambridge and St. Thomas’ in 1982. Her training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology took place at St Thomas’ and St Marys Hospital London and Addenbrookes Cambridge. The Sexual Reproductive Health Care (SRH) training in South London in her first consultant appointment in Bedfordshire she established one of the first ‘off hospital site’ Community Reproductive Health services, winning a Nation Charter Mark. Christine was the SRH Services Clinical Director and also for 5 years the Trust Medical Director.

In 2004 Christine became an SRH Consultant in South London concentrating mainly on Contraception, Menopause care, PCOS and PMS having been Chair of Clinical Standards Committee and FSRH Vice President.

In 2011 she was elected President of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health (2008-2011). Here she led the team that established the new speciality of SRH together with GMC approved speciality curriculum, amongst other  Educational and Clinical Governance developments.

Mr Nick Panay is a Consultant Gynaecologist with a special interest in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery, Menopause and Menstrual Disorders.

He is a Consultant Gynaecologist, Subspecialist in Reproductive Medicine & Surgery at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital London, also Honorary Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London.

He has a particular interest in minimal access surgery, both laparoscopic and hysteroscopic. He heads the operative outpatient hysteroscopy centre at Queen Charlotte’s Hospital which facilities the one stop investigation and treatment of women with bleeding disorders.

He is currently a trustee and on the medical advisory committee of the British Menopause Society (BMS), Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London and Guest Professor, Capital Medical University, Beijing Obstetrics and Gynaecology Hospital.

He is Secretary-General of the International Menopause Society (IMS) and was the Editor-in-Chief of Climacteric (The Journal of the IMS). He is also the immediate past honorary director of conferences at The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London.